Friday, September 11, 2009

It's almost Christmas (Think about it. I kinda almost really is.) and you know what that means: publishers think this is when they will get you to spend $50 on some coffee table fantasy. And a lot of us will, so here's your roundup:

Italian Touch I am dying to get this. Rumor has it that Anna Dello Russo's house is featured. Fashion people have sexier homes than interior design people, so that should be fun to flip through.

Miss Elle Decor's new book, Style and Substance. When is Elle Decor bad? Never. So this should be pretty god as long as there aren't too many re-runs of stuff we have already seen in the magazine. (What are the odds? Slim, I imagine.)

THIS one seems like a mash note to socialites no one cares about anymore now that people realized they bought their houses with fake money, etc etc. I am a big "no" on this one, but it's the follow-up to last year's 20-pound Hamish Bowles celebration of lives you and I will never, ever, ever have, and, well, since it's my duty to report this kind of style/design stuff to you, here it is. If you want smug Tom & Giselle staring at you on your bookshelf, that's your business.

And if Kelly's blast from the 80s past is too much for you (or me), you could get THIS. Kasler's work is the visual equivalent of realizing you still have two more Vicodin pills from your recent injury, taking the day off of work, washing one of them down with a glass of red wine and napping leisurely in the afternoon. Or something like that. And I mean that in the best way.

20 comments:

hilarious words to review Kassler book. i'm sold! if i were her, i'd take your review and print it on the book to help with sales. seriously hilarious. with a lack of shelter mags these days i kind of feel like getting them all and taking many months to read them... pretending they are all magazines... except maybe the 80's hue thing, i just don't dig it.

I don't know...Carine Roitfeld's home seemed almost too cold and I was expecting something much sexier, she with the artfully messy hair in your face look! I'd really love to see the other Anna's(Ms Devil wears Prada) home too though.

I get a kick out of reading the women commenters' reactions to the cover of the KW book. The picture stirs up a lot of anxiety. "Is she trying to pose in some way?" "What's she doing?" "What effect is she going for?" etc.